Engineering Lead — AI HR UX & Platform

Cascade Health, Inc.; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Cascade Health, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Lead to guide the team building the next generation of our end-user experiences.

You will own architecture for Cascade’s AI-powered HR agents, collaborate with product and design, and report to the CTO to ensure delivery quality and team health. In this hands-on leadership role, you’ll drive full-stack development of core experiences, mentor engineers, and align technical decisions with business goals while delivering reliable, high-performance user

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering, including leadership or management.
• Strong Python proficiency.
• Extensive cloud experience with production systems.
• Solid system design experience with production deployments.
• Track record of owning large, multi-sprint initiatives end-to-end.
• Strong product intuition to translate vague requirements into concrete plans.
• Experience with scalable, containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Clear communicator aligning engineering decisions with business goals.
• Frontend TypeScript/React and real-time UX familiarity (preferred).
• Experience integrating with enterprise systems (Workday, ADP, UKG, ServiceNow).

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of engineers — own day-to-day execution, technical direction, and the team’s delivery and health.
• Drive full-stack development of Cascade’s core end-user experiences: conversational interfaces, workflow surfaces, and agent-driven interactions.
• Architect frontend and backend systems that support real-time, long-running HR workflows.
• Make and guide architectural decisions that balance performance, reliability, and rapid iteration.
• Mentor and develop engineers through code reviews, pairing, and career guidance.
• Partner cross-functionally with product, design, and the AI/LLM platform team to define roadmap priorities.
• Turn user feedback into iterative improvements that increase clarity, trust, and engagement.
• Own production excellence: monitoring, observability, and incident response for your surface.

Skills

Python

Cloud experience

System design

Leadership

Product intuition

Docker/Kubernetes

Communication

Frontend (TypeScript/React)

LLM-powered systems

Real-time / streaming UX

Tools

LangChain

WorkOS

Azure

GCP

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

LangSmith

Job description

Cascade Health, Inc. is seeking an Engineering Lead to guide the team building the next generation of our end-user experiences.

You will own architecture for Cascade’s AI-powered HR agents, collaborate with product and design, and report to the CTO to ensure delivery quality and team health. In this hands-on leadership role, you’ll drive full-stack development of core experiences, mentor engineers, and align technical decisions with business goals while delivering reliable, high-performance user